What is the purpose of the study?

REACT Health and Wellbeing survey is part of an extension study to the REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) Programme. The main aim of this extension study is to better understand what causes some people to experience ongoing symptoms and ill health after having COVID-19 (commonly described as Long COVID), regardless of how severe the original infection was, whilst others recover quickly. Through a variety of approaches, this study will explore the role that people’s health, social setting, demographics and environmental exposures (e.g. air pollution) plays in the development and duration of Long COVID. Such insight could improve patient care and support the development of better treatments. This aspect of the study is focused on exploring the health and wellbeing experiences of the public since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.